08/28/09 — O’Connor vs. Madison

Our first impression of Heroes Stadium — beautiful and spacious. About the only negative we can come up with at this point, an hour and a half before kickoff, is that there will no longer be all the popcorn, hot dogs and soda you can consume in the press box.

And that’s probably more of a positive, so we’re giving San Antonio’s newest high school football stadium two big thumbs up. Two favorite features so far — the ice-cold water fountains and the birds-eye vantage points offered from the stands, which sit a good 20-30 feet above the playing field. It’s also cool to see the bustle of traffic racing along I-35 and Wurzbach Parkway. (A trucker just cranked his horn as we type this.)

We’ll see what kind of kinks pop up as the weeks wear on. But so far, so good.